N. Korea Hails 'Knife Shower of Justice' on Ambassador

North Korea doesn't usually go out of its way to congratulate anyone from South Korea on anything, but today it praised the pro-North activist who allegedly attacked US Ambassador Mark Lippert with a knife yesterday, Yonhap reports. The dispatch from the state's Korean Central News Agency sent out this morning started with a heading of "Deserved punishment for warmonger United States" and veered from there into applause for 55-year-old suspect Kim Ki-jong, who the dispatch said rained a "knife shower of justice" onto Lippert.

One of Kim's apparent major beefs: the US conducting joint military exercises in Seoul and "raising tensions on the Korean Peninsula," as Yonhap puts it. Meanwhile, Lippert tweeted today that he's "Doing well&in great spirits!" (North Korea is definitely keeping it weird.)